Wire fence



UNITED STALESv PATENT GFFICE.

P. S. CLINGER, OF CONESTOGA CENTRE, PENNSYLVANIA.

WIRE FENCE.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 25,387, dated September 13, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, P. S. CLINGER, of Conestoga Centre, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Device for Stretching and Retaining the Tires Used for Fencing Purposes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and letters marked thereon.

Beginning with a stout post, A, braced below at P, (Figure l, exhibiting one panel of fencing of thirty feet, with the intermediate laths L, live feet apart.) To this post A the separate strands of wire are attached at the desired intervals apart, and at every thirty feet a common board-fence post is set, to the distance of two hundred yards or more, at which point the tension or adjusting post Fig. 2, is firmly set and braced on both sides P. This post has mortises through it at proper intervals for each of the strands of wire employed. A hole is bored at right angles to and through the center of the post and mortises, for the reception of the pin s, with a ratchet wheel T cast on its outer end, and winding nozzle or square projection, Fig. 4. This pin has a hole at O', through which the end of the extended wire is passed in the mortise, and wound up to any degree of tension by means of the wrench R, and held in place by the click K and the ratchet, T, outside on the post, to each wire as shown by Fig. 2. The wires are secured to the intermediate posts B, by a staple loosely yet closely driven over each on its face. The intermediate laths are in like manner aiiixed which completes two hundred yards of the fencing. The next series of wires have one end provided with a rounded hook, H, which is introduced through the mortise and slipped over the p1n S, Fig. t, &c., and carried forward over intermediate posts B, to the next main or and wound on the pins, does not affect the wires fastened to the hooks passed over or around the pins, as the motion is free in the rounded hooks, so that each separate wire can be tightened or slackened, by its own appliances with ease, and any wire repaired or readily adjusted as occasion or change in temperature may demand.

The fixing is simple, (for every two hundred yards of fencing, will be but a trifling expenditure), and may be coated with tar paint or sheltered by a covering, and will make a neat, cheap and durable fence; light, cast iron posts, set on stones, may be employed, on our extensive prairie farms where timber is scarce.

I am aware that there is no novelty in the pin ratchet and click nor the hook employed separately considered nor do I claim such.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The combination of the pin S, with the ratchet T, in connection with the mortised posts, Fig. 2, and the hooked wires H, w, when these several parts are substantially as herein described for the purpose set forth.

P. S. CLINGER.

Witnesses at signing:

S. G. MUSSER, JACOB STAUFFER. 

